Why are conservatives claiming Google is covering up the shooting of Trump?
Al Jazeera
Autocomplete ‘anomalies’ were not the result of any manual action, the tech giant says.
Google has come under fire from conservatives in the United States amid claims that the tech giant is suppressing information about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in order to influence the presidential election.
Trump, who is running for a second term in the White House on the Republican Party ticket, narrowly escaped being killed when a lone gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.
The attack, which killed one rally attendee, injured two others, and bloodied the former president’s ear, has spawned a number of unsubstantiated claims and conspiracy theories.
The latest revolves around Google Search’s autocomplete feature, which is designed to help users save time by predicting their search query based on the opening letters or words that are inputted.
Over the weekend, some internet users noticed that writing about assassination attempts in the Google search bar did not automatically prompt search queries about the shooting of Trump.
